Vol. 2, No. 1 Fall 1994

1. Editor's Corner 2. Writing To Poland for Records 3. Great Suggestion! (Combine Efforts to Translate Yizkor Books) 4. Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia 5. Video Resources at Beth Hatefutsoth 6. Drohobycz (Translated Materials) 7. Gliniany (Yizkor Books) 8. Kamenetz Podolsk (Book About) 9. Przemysl (Books About) 10. Turka/Stryy (Yizkor Book) 11. Zloczow (Book About) 12. Interesting Source of Vital Records 13. YIVO Institute For Jewish Research 14. Books About Galicia 15. Survey Of Polish Jewish Cemeteries & Synagogues 16. Cracow 17. Love Story: A Wedding Announcement 18. Czortkov and Grzmaylov 19. Debica 20. Gologory & Szpiklosy 21. Kalush 22. Lancut and Tyczyn Cemeteries 23. Liwcze 24. Kolomyya 25. Radomysl Wielkie 26. Rzeszow 27. Sasow 28. Ulanow 29. More On the Meaning of AGAD 30. Correction Re: The Judaica Treasures of Galicia Exhibit 31. Military Records At LDS 32. New Developments On the 1995 SIG Trip To Poland 33. SIG Member Living In Warsaw 34. A Potential Travel Resource 35. Some Helpful Hints For Visiting Ancestral Towns in Ukraine 36. Travel Saga

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EDITOR'S CORNER

LaShana Tova! Your SIG because it was Herb who collective response to the found the antique volume that renewal questionnaire was formed the basis for our rich in material for Galician Gazetteer at the publication! Clearly our SIG U.S. Library of Congress many members are willing to share years ago. He was always a with each other and that's fount of interesting what this group is all about. information from his linkages with library databases around First, the good news. the country. Gary Fitelberg attended the Along with renewals, International Jewish some members have sent Genealogical Seminar in donations to ensure that our Jerusalem this past Spring SIG survives. Many thanks and has written a wonderful are due to: Jeanne Andelman, piece published here about Elliot Bernstein, Matilda finding true love at the Brand, Linda Cantor, William conference. Unfortunately, Fern, Rosalind Frey, Estelle (sigh) she's a Litvak but we Guzik, Kenneth Harris, Josh can't have everything can we, Hilsenrath, Leon Hirsh, Marty Gary? Isserlis, Harold Kellerman, Sadly, Chaim "Herb" Douglas Koplow, Avrohom Unger from Florida passed Krauss, Ronald Miller, Scott away in the Spring. He was a Seligman and Edan Unterman. pioneer in the field of Please forgive me if I have Jewish genealogy and was overlooked your name in this especially important to our listing. T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 3

Although SIG Travel (FAX: 407/831-0507) or Chairman, Phyllis Simon has contact him through Internet: not had as much help as she [email protected]. had hoped with planning a From the large number of 1995 trip to Poland, she requests for information reports some recent progress about writing to Poland for in that department. She has vital records, I think that had a letter from Dr. the article reprinted from Slawomir Krapralski of the AVOTAYNU in Vol. 1, No. 1 Research Center for the Study must not have been of Jewish History and Culture sufficiently clear. So, in of the Jagiellonian this issue, I will lay out as University in Cracow which clearly as I can, what to do. offers some hope that the Also, some people could trip to Poland can be a not cope with my effort to reality in 1995. See the provide Polish phrases to travel section below for more construct a letter in Vol. 1, about this issue. No. 3 (with corrections in For those still planning No. 4). If someone in the a trip to Ukraine despite group can write a letter that difficult conditions there, will enable members to simple see Miriam Weiner's article insert names and dates, I below. Phyllis Simon, among will publish it in Polish and others want to travel to English. Ukraine. Although the SIG can't take responsibility for WRITING TO POLAND FOR RECORDS organizing such a trip at by Suzan Wynne this time, Phyllis Simon is still very interested in As noted above, many going and would welcome people appear to need clearer company. Write to her if you information about what they are interested. should do to obtain records In the last issue, I from Poland. Part of the suggested that we consider confusion seems to stem from expanding our focus to a lack of geographic include Bukovina since so familiarity with where towns many members are interested are in relation to the border in this region. It turns out between Poland and Ukraine. that the ROM-SIG is already In other words, was your town doing just that. Please in Western or Eastern contact Gene Starn, Editor of Galicia? Is it today in the ROM-SIG News, P.O. Box Poland or Ukraine? You might 520583, Longwood, FL 32752 have to do a little research T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 4

to establish the answer to what is in that collection. this. You can consult with Some records from an historical atlas at the Eastern Galicia remain in library or one of many good Ukraine for one reason or history texts discussing another. See The European history. You might Galitzianer, Vol. 1, No. 4, also want to consult the for additional information. Galician Gazetteer which is Also, subscribe to AVOTAYNU on microfiche and is to keep up with new available for $3 from developments as access to AVOTAYNU, P.O. Box 900, archives there opens up. Teaneck, NJ 07666. Or, you East European can write to me with a self Genealogist (June 1994) notes addressed stamped envelope that the Mormons have just and I will tell you. See the begun microfilming the book section for a review of archives in L'viv and Kiev. a new resource, The L'viv is where old Jewish Genealogical Gazetteer of records from Galicia are Galicia. known to be stored, though Secondly, the records the inventory of what is were collected and stored in there has not been released. Galicia according to Austrian The work "will begin with government regulations. the filming of a 30,000 Today, these records are volume collection of Jewish stored in accordance with the records...It will be at least governmental regulations of a year or two before any Poland and Ukraine that microfilms appear in the govern such records and Family History Library documents. Catalogue." Some people are writing Eastern Ukraine directly to towns in Ukraine With respect to records to determine what kind of from that part of Galicia now information might still be in in Ukraine, vast numbers of communities. If you write, volumes of Jewish records are do so in Ukrainian and direct in Warsaw in the Zabuzanski your letter to the mayor. Collection at the Urzad Stanu This is also a useful way of Cywilnego - Warszawa making contact in case you Srodmiescie, Archiwum akt want to know something about Zabuzanskich, ul. Jezuicka hotels, cemeteries, Jews 1/3, 00-281 Warszawa, Poland. still living in the town, See The Galitzianer, Vol. 1, etc. Some people have been Nos. 1 & 2, for a listing of able to find local people to T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 5

photograph houses and place; sometimes it didn't. cemeteries by simply writing Sometimes the records were to the mayor. transferred and were lost enroute or were improperly Western Galicia routed and are now misplaced This part of Galicia now without anyone knowing where comprises southeastern they are. The Polish Poland. In Poland today, government is taking steps to vital records (births, deaths inventory what it has in its and marriages) are received regional archives, but this and stored at a Urzad Stanu will take some time. Cywilnego (USC), the town The late 19th century- registry office. Records, early 20th century Jewish including Jewish records, records of many districts that are less than 100 years were destroyed in one of old are supposed to be stored three major wars that have there. These USCs are afflicted this region. Some administered by the various records were even destroyed "counties" or administrative by Jews who were hoping to districts within Poland. confuse and slow down To obtain information, write identification by the Nazis. in typewritten Polish to: When searching for Urzad Stanu Cywilnego records more than 100 years Name of Town, Name of old, start by sending a Province if known personal check for $30 US to: POLAND Naczelna Dyrekcja When records are about Archiwow Panstwowych 100 years old, they are 00-950 Warszawa supposed to be transferred to ul. Dluga 6 the national archives system. This system is Compose a typewritten bureaucratically under a letter in Polish which national ministry not always provides specific names of in tune with the "county" people and, if possible, the administrative structure. approximate dates of the These old records are stored event. The main archives in regional archives will forward your request to scattered throughout the the proper regional archives. country. Where Jewish This is true even if the records were concerned, place you are interested in sometimes this transfer took is Krakow. Of course, some T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 6

old Krakow records are on with a check. In return microfilm with LDS. If you mail, you will receive your are interested in Krakow, copies. certainly check in the Some people have been catalogue and order films for able to link into other types review before going to the of assistance by writing to expense of writing to Poland. the mayor. Many towns will Please also refer to The have school records, town tax Galitzianer, Vol. 1, No. 2, records, and court records pages 20-21, for a listing of which include notarized films about the Galician documents. These are rich Jewish records held by the sources of information and Mormons in their Family many of us have overlooked History LIbrary. them in our desire to possess According to an article the birth, death and marriage in AVOTAYNU by the Chief records. Writing to the Archivist of Poland, mayor may assist you in discussed in greater detail locating a researcher or below, current fees for someone well-versed in local genealogical research are as history who can become your follows (in US dollars): on-site aide in obtaining information. Advance payment: $30 Hourly fee: 15 BOOKS AND OTHER MATERIALS Photocopy of a 1-2 page document: 10 Great Suggestion! Photocopy of each Renee Steinig suggests page over 2 5 combining efforts for a Microfilm per frame: 2 translated surname index in yizkor books. She has If the town was very translated the index in the small or one of several of Tolstoye (Tluste) and the same name, you would do Jezierzany (Oziran) books she best to provide the owns. Others have done the wojewodztwo or province (see same for books they own. Vol. No. 2, p. 14). If Moishe Miller, Steve Byars information is found, you and others have volunteered will be notified by letter in to assist with large scale Polish, with a bill for what computer efforts such as you will have to pay to these. If you have created obtain photocopies. Send a an index of books you own, copy of the letter back please send information about marking which items you want which books to Suzan Wynne. T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 7

Then we can focus on how to names in Polish and Ukrainian organize such a project. with the administrative Thanks Renee! district covering the town and 2) small places which Genealogical Gazetteer of have experienced name Galicia changes. The book has a by Suzan Wynne large section of regional maps. Each map includes the The above named book, boundaries of the mentioned in Vol. 1, No. 4, administrative districts was compiled by Brian J. within the region and the Lenius. This is an major town or city within the impressive addition to district. The book is resources available to us. available for $41 US (checks The book includes all of the to Brian Lenius) from Box 18, towns in Galicia. Another Grp. 4, R.R. #1; Anola, aspect of the book includes Manitoba, CANADA ROE OAO. administrative and judicial Lenius also publishes a fine districts for Christian publication, East European parishes. In the case of Genealogist for the East Jewish records, the judicial European Branch of the districts closely overlap Manitoba Genealogical where vital records were Society, Inc. Membership is collected and stored. I $12 Canadian for one year. compared this part of the Write to P.O. Box 2536, book to The Galician Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 4A7. Gazetteer, compiled by me from an 1875 official Video Resources at Beth Austrian book listing Jewish Hatefutsoth administrative districts in Marian Rubin writes to Galicia. Lenius confirmed in say that when she was in a letter to me (August 7) Israel, she saw videos on that the judicial districts Rzeszow and Lancut at Beth are virtually all the same as Hatefutsoth. They provided the subdistricts listed in "some history of the Jewish The Galician Gazetteer. community and mention Lenius has noted some prominent members of the administrative district community. I don't know if changes that took place in the names are just repeats of 1906 and judicial district those in the Yizkor books. changes that took place in It is quite touching to see 1914. these films..." The videos The book lists 1) place combined current footage with T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 8

scenes of the Jewish Jews from Drohobycz that he community before WWII. copied from volumes at the A review of the Polish State Archives a few catalogue that Marian sent years ago. reveals that among the varied collection of videos are Gliniany short 1939 films about Jewish Anne Halpern writes that life in Cracow and Lwow and a there are, in fact, not two, 1988 filmed dialogue between but three Yizkor books for former Jewish residents of Gliniany (see Vol. 1, No.2). Tarnow and a group of Poles. The third is Kehilat Glina, Marian does not say if 1473-1943: tolodoteha ve- there is any way to see these hurbana (The Community of videos outside of Beth Glina 1473-1943: its history Hatefutsoth. and destruction), Asher Korech, Jerusalem, 1950 (in Drohobycz Hebrew). The Library of William Fern has made Congress call number is English translations of the DS135.R93 G564 1950. Anne following works and will send says that the other two books a photocopy of any of them mentioned in The Galitzianer, for the cost of copying and Vol. 1, No. 2, were edited by postage. (1) Summary of the her grandfather, Henoch chapter on the history of the Halpern. One, 52 pages long, Jews of Drobhobycz from the has been translated on tape yizkor book of Drohobycz- and Anne is in the process of Boryslaw, edited by N.M. transcribing the book. If Memorial to the Jews of she can obtain permission Drohobycz-Boryslaw and from the translator, she Surroundings, Tel Aviv, 1959. would be willing to share it This deals with general with others. Furthermore, historical background. (2) Anne and her father are Wikler, Jakuh "Z Dziejow exploring ways that the Zydow w Drohobyczu" ("Old longer, 307 page, book, could historical events of the Jews be translated from the of Drohobycz"), Bulletin of Yiddish. If you are Jewish Historical Institute, interested in participating No. 71-72, Warsaw, 1969. in this latter project, Write to 4 Edgewater please contact Anne. Hillside, Westport, CT 06880. Kamenetz Podolsk David Einsiedler has Jewel Fishkin has a a vital statistics records of few copies of a book about T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 9

Kamenetz Podolsk by a man A Chronicle of Survival by living in Tel Aviv. It is in Samuel Lipa Tennenbaum. The Hebrew and needs to be book mentions Sasow and other translated. Contact her if towns and some names. you are interested in figuring out how this can Interesting Source of Vital happen. Records Moishe Miller says that Przemysl a good source of birth Georges Rosenfeld found information for about 2400 a chapter describing Przemysl Jews is in a book about Jews in the book written by Verena who had fled the Nazis by Dohrn, Reise durch Galizien: going across the Tylicz pass Grenlandschaften des alten to Bardejov and Slovakian Europa (published by Fischer border towns and were, for Verlag, Frankfurt, date not various reasons, not deported provided). from Bardejov in 1942. The East European Moishe says that the book Genealogist (June 1994) contains name, birthdate, mentions a 1993 book titled city of birth and occupation Akta Wyznaniowe Wzasobie and some reason for why they Archiwum Pantwowego w were not deported. Moishe Przemyslu (Denominational came across many Jews born in Records at the Przemysl State Nowy Sacz, Tylicz, Kanczuga, Archives) by Anna Krochmal. Oswiecim, Sanok and Gorlice, A copy of this book is owned among other towns in Galicia. by the East European Branch The book, which contains of the Manitoba Genealogical no information about the Society. Every effort will publisher, is entitled be made to obtain a copy for B'Uvdan Moladity by Abraham the SIG or at least the Grussgott. This sounds relevant pages pertaining to intriguing, but the Jewish records. information sounds difficult to access in its present Turka/Stryy form. Moishe, please give Gloria Klehr Frey has a some thought to how you can xeroxed copy of the memorial assist members to either book that covers Turka and enter the names and data into Stryy. a database or to make copies of the book for the price of Zloczow the copies plus mailing? Brian Neil Burg has Zloczow Memorial, 1939-1944: YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 10

RESEARCH reliable historian and genealogist. In 45 years, he YIVO, which has the published about 70 historical world's largest library and studies and some 200 short archival collection papers and reviews in various pertaining to Eastern Europe periodicals. A few of his Jews, has moved to temporary works, all in the Polish quarters at 555 West 57th language, were about Galicia. Street, , NY. In early 1996, YIVO will move Dzieye Zydow w Galicyi i w again to permanent facilities Rzeszpospolitej Krakowskiej, near New York University at 1772-1868 (The History of 15 West 16th Street, along Jews in Galicia and in the with the , Krakow Republic), Lwow, 1916. the American Jewish It is a candid picture of Historical Society and the the life of Jews in Austrian Yeshiva University Museum. Galicia, and their political and cultural struggles. Much BOOKS ABOUT GALICIA history, no genealogy. by David Einsiedler Library of Congress, DS 135 P6 G(?). Galicia was known as Little Poland until the first Dzieje Zydow w Krakowie i na partition of Poland in 1772 Kazimierzu, 1304-1868 when it became a province of (History of Jews in Krakow the Austro-Hungarian Empire. and Kazimeirz), Krakow, 1913. After 1918, the area became The two volumes of history a province of reconstructed include 49 family trees of Poland, again referred to as prominent rabbinic and non- Little Poland. After 1939, rabbinic families. Excellent the Eastern half of Galicia description of the became a part of Western organization and function of Ukraine. the Kahel, the official One of the most organization of the Jewish outstanding Polish Jewish community. Library of historians was professor Congress, DS 135 P6 K72. Mayer Balaban (1877-1942). He wrote mostly in Polish, Zydzi Lwowscy na Przelomie Russian and German with a few XVI i XVII Wieku (The Jews of books in Yiddish and Hebrew. Lwow at the Turn of the 16th He used authentic data from and 17th Centuries), Lwow, Polish and Jewish archival 1906. An early history of sources and is a very the Jews in Lwow. T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 11

community from 1550 to 1890. Zabytki Historyczne Zydow w Some distinguished lay Polsce (Historical leaders are included in this Antiquities of the Jews in list. Many biographies Poland), Warsaw, 1929. A include family genealogies. historian's inventory of UCLA, BM 750 B 851a. Jewish art and artifacts between the two wars. Most Kirya Nisgava (Lofty City), of them are no more. While Krakow, 1900 is a similar not about genealogy and not book about Zolkiew. UCLA, specifically about Galicia, BM750 B 851a; University of it contains much about the Judaism 943.2 B 917K treasures of Galician towns and Jews. It lists exhibits, Another historian of museums, libraries, archives, Lwow rabbis was Chaim Nathan synagogues and cemeteries. Dembitzer, a Krakow rabbi. It describes secular He wrote Klilat Yoffi (The memorabilia and family relics Perfection of Beauty), (portraits, papers, ritual Krakow, 1888. In Hebrew, it objects, prayer books, contains biographies 21 Lwow bibles, Talmuds). Its rabbis and other figures. illustrations include one of UCLA BM 750 D 39K. the "Eastern Wall" in the synagogue of Chodorow Zydzi w Przemyslu do Konca (c.1642), handpainted for XVIII Wieku (Jews in Przemysl many colors, where my Until the End of the 18th father's great-grandfather Century), Lwow, 1903 is an was the Chief Rabbi. early history, in Polish, of University of Judaism, Los the Jews in Przemysl by the Angeles, 937.2 B 1712 1929. modern historian Mojzesz Schorr. Another scholar and researcher of note was General Books About Galicia Solomon Buber, Martin Buber's Laurence Krupnak owns a grandfather. One of the large number of important "enlightened" Hebraists in works on Galicia. Below are Poland, he wrote two books of some titles to alert members interest in Hebrew: to their existence. Presumably, most of these Anshei Shem (Men of Renown), articles and books would only Krakow, 1895 contains the be available at large biographical sketches of 564 academic/research libraries rabbis who served the Lwow or at the Library of T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 12

Congress. The Survey of Historic Historical Atlas of East Jewish in Poland, Central Europe by Prof. P.R. undertaken for the United Magosci, University of States Commission for the Toronto Press. Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, is now Church in Ruin by O.W. available for $12.50 from the Iwanusiw. The book includes , 174 a gazetteer with villages not East 80th Street, New York, in Where Once We Walked. NY 10021. The report includes comments on the Encyclopedia of Ukraine...the condition of almost 700 authoritative resource on Jewish cemeteries and about Ukraine, including Galicia. 250 synagogues in Poland. A more complete database of Galicia: A Historical Survey information about each site and Bibliographic Guide by has been installed at the Prof. P.R. Magosci, U.S. Holocaust Museum in University of Toronto Press, Washington. 1983 (reprinted 1985), ISBN 0-8020-2482-3. According to CRACOW Morey Altman, who also wrote in about this book, the main The Spring 1994 Beth focus is on Ukrainian history Hatefutsoth Newsletter but there are good maps and a announced that in August chapter on Jewish life. The 1994, they opened Kazmierz: bibliographic references are The Jewish Quarter of Cracow, excellent and include 1870-1988, a photography materials on Jews in Polish, exhibition prepared by Polish Yiddish, Ukrainian languages. photographer, Stanislaw Markowski. Atlas of the Ukraine and In the Summer, 1994 Ethnic Groups of Southwestern (Vol. VI, No. 2) issue of Ukraine, by W. Kubijouyc. Lineage, the newsletter of Includes Jewish population the Jewish Genealogical figures for every town in Society of Long Island, SIG Ukraine Ethnographic region member, Linda Cantor wrote in 1937. about efforts by the World Fund's Jewish Heritage Council to restore Survey of Polish Jewish the Tempel Synagogue in Cemeteries & Synagogues Kazmierz. The project, which T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 13

began in 1992, will involve each others' names to our reinforcing the foundation, respective family trees. refurbishing the interior, Perhaps we will be adding and putting on a new roof. some new branches soon!! Built in 1862 by the Association of Progressive MEMBER EXCHANGE Jews, the Tempel Synagogue is the only intact 19th century Czortkov and Grzmaylov synagogue still standing in by Andy Tenenbaum Poland. To contribute financially to this effort, I had to be in Poland on write to JHC Director, Samuel business over the summer and, Gruber, 174 East 80th Street, while there, with the New York, NY 10021. assistance of a colleague, I was able to obtain volumes of LOVE STORY: A WEDDING interest from the Zabusanski ANNOUNCEMENT Collection. I found that the by Gary Fitelberg original information, published in both AVOTAYNU Nes Gadol Haya Sham. A (Summer 1992) and Vol. 1, No. great Miracle happened 1 of The Galitzianer about there!! Coincidence? I these records was correct. think not. It was Bashert. The following records A match made in Heaven. are in the Polish National I met a wonderful woman Archives, ul. Dluga 7: named Barbara Sora Shpack, more affectionately known as Chorostkov births: 1830-1871; "Ms. Shpack-aah" at the 1874-1876; 1877-1886 Fourth International Jewish Genealogy Conference held in The following records April and May in Jerusalem. are in the town archives in For those curious Warsaw at ul. Jeziucka 3 (see genealogists, she is no above article by Suzan Wynne relation to the famous Spock, for more information): Leonard Nimoy, of Star Trek television fame. Chorostkov births: 1887-1929 The conference was a Grzymalow births: 1919-1936 veritable genealogical Grzymalow marriages: 1905- goldmine for me...she has a 1931 golden heart and golden hair. Grzymalow deaths: 1919-1936 From the start, we made quite a pair. Now we are The records were written engagaed and anxious to add by hand on preprinted forms T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 14

in German and Polish. The The synagogue still stands, entries were entirely in though it is a flea market Polish. today, and the cemetery, The 1830-1871 birth while 95% destroyed, still register has only one entry has 40-50 stones remaining. per line. The 1874-1877 I would be happy to register is in terrible provide information to SIG condition. I think it was members. once under water. Starting in 1877, the records are much Gologory & Szpiklosy more extensive and are in Gary Gelber is currently better shape than the older writing the Gelber family records. history. He says, "We hail Only five marriages are from Gologory and Szpiklosy. listed in the entire Are there any landsmen from Grzymalow marriage book. these towns?" The rabbi of Chorostkow starting around 1889 was Kalush Jakob Barbasz. Many of the Nancy Polevoy is births were illegitimate at researching this town. the time of birth, but in Noting that the Jewish some cases, the parents were records for this area appear married later and an entry to be missing from the was made telling where the listing of Eastern Galician civil marriage was recorded. records in Warsaw, she proposes that those SIG members who are interested in Debica Kalush share expenses for a by Mark Taub search for these records. Please contact her directly. My father, David Taub, a (Ed. note: It is Holocaust survivor, was born possible that they were never in Debica (Dembitz) and he transferred. They may be a and I have traveled there part of the collection in twice, in 1991 and 1993, to Lviv.) do research, visit the area, etc. I was fortunate to Lancut and Tyczyn Cemeteries obtain copies of elementary Nat Abramowitz wants school report cards, voter members to know that Mendel registration lists, Reichberg has already business/occupation license undertaken two cemetery journals, etc. We found the restoration projects: in house my father was born in. Lancut and Tyczyn. Nat has T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 15

seen the nearly completed Ben Nachman has complete results in Tyczyn and is records of the trial of the impressed with the Nazis that were part of the seriousness of Mr. liquidation of the Jews of Reichberg's efforts. Work in Kolomyya. He also has German Lancut is just beginning. If orders of the records of the you are interested in train taking the Jews to contributing money, send your Belzec from Kolomyya. He did check to Mr. Reichberg at not mention if these 4820 13th Avenue, , materials provide names of NY 11219. individual Jews.

Liwcze Radomysl Wielkie Judith Shulamith Langer Joel Shield received a Caplan writes that the USC reply from the local archives (town record office) of in Radomysl Wielki that says Liwcze has no Jewish records that all Jewish records from from the turn of this the town were destroyed by century, but the Archiwum the Nazis and it is unclear Glowne Akt Dawnych if copies exist elsewhere. (AGAD...see article below for Radomysl Wielkie was a more details) has records for collection point for birth, births from 1858-1891 and marriage and death records deaths from 1831-1890 for the from surrounding towns within gmina of Sokal, which the major administrative includes Liwcze. Though Judi district of Mielec. Thus, says that she was told that the Jewish records of many the records do not include small towns near Radomysl Warcz, Warcz was, in fact, Wielkie were also destroyed. the collection point for Liwcze records as well as Rzeszow those from other nearby Marian Rubin wrote to towns. They should be say that the following is an intermixed in the same excellent contact for volumes. Ask for another Rzeszow. She is willing to check of these records, Judi, provide information about the but be sure you spell the town and its residents from town name correctly. her memory of her life there. Judi was able to obtain Mrs. Klara Maayan, Epstein records for her Langer and 8A, Tel Aviv 62962 phone: Weber family from Liwcze. (03) 604-0048. Also Louis Goldman has found an Kolomyya 1874 book, published in T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 16

Vienna, that has recently Termutter Feldman been reprinted that provides Habber Heinis Moszko population information for Sverling Marshinstein Galicia. The book is Weiner Hoch entitled Orts-Repertorium des Guttman Klein Konigreiches Galizien und Weisman Shapiro Lodomerien and is published Shor Schwarzlin by Helmut Scherer Verlag GmgH Halsenbruch Silberg Berlin, 1000 Berlin 45, Zadplatz Tannenbaum Boothstr. 21a. The portion Brummer Medler Louis sent provides Shapura Katz population data for the towns Reis in the Rzeszow district, including the number of Ulanow households, the number of Richard Schwartzstein men, women and children. has a 1992 chapter of a book, in Polish, by Taleusz Kumik Sasow about the town of Ulanow. Howard Dreises sent in a The chapter includes the handwritten map of Sasow information that the Jewish which was drawn by an cemetery is well maintained. acquaintance who visited the The book has a photo of the town in April, 1994. The cemetery and information acquaintance also took photos about some of the former of the town. The map appears Jewish residents of the town. at the end of this issue. Write to Richard for Howard noted that during the additional information. German occupation in 1941-2, Richard is seeking men worked on the roads and information about his in the stone quarry. Most ancestors Jacob and Mendel died while doing this work. Taub from Ulanow. The women and children were interned in camps in what is More on the Meaning of AGAD now Zolotchev. Once an A knowledgeable member, important rabbinic town, at who prefers to remain present, there are no Jews anonymous, has solved the living in Sasow. The names mystery of the meaning of of Jews living in pre-war AGAD (see Vol. 1, No. 2). Sasow as remembered by This is the Archiwum Glowne present inhabitants (Heinis Akt Dawnych w Warszawie Moszko is in Israel): (Centeral Archives for Old Documents/Files in Warsaw). Landensburg Weigler This Archive, located at ul. T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 17

Dluga 7, 00-263 Warszawa, generally houses pre-19th century material, though they also have some 19th century records. The Archive for more contemporary times is Archiwum Akt Nowych w Warszawie (Central Archives for New Documents/Files). It's address: ul. Niepodlglosnci 162, 02-554 Warszawa. MILITARY RECORDS AT LDS Correction re: the Judaica by Ada Greenblatt Treasures of Galicia Exhibit by William Fern I looked into the Hapsburg Military Records for The photograph on p. 20 WWI on microfilm at my local of The Galitzianer, Vol. 1, Family History Library No. 3, is a casualty of an (Mormon) library. The good error that Beth Hatefutsoth news is that I discovered made in producing its flyer that each year has an on this exhibit. I am one of alphabetical index of the sponsors of the exhibit surnames, with a page number and thus received an advance after each name. Thus, after copy of the flyer. I you find a name, you can go contacted the organizers to to the page that gives explain that the photo details about the person's represented a model of the service. The bad news Zabludow synagogue. Zabludow is that I couldn't find my is near Bialystok, far from Galician-born grandfather in Galicia. After some the index, even though he correspondence, they served with the Hapsburg Army rectified the error and sent during WWI in northern . out a revised brochure However, perhaps you will be showing the synagogue of more fortunate: Zolkiew shown below. Film #1506282 This is labeled for years 1912-14, but it really covers 1911, 1912. Alphabetical index for 1911: pages 1479- 1737 T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 18

" " " 1912: tentative costs for airline pages 1551-1823 travel and other expenses. It seems likely that people Film #1506283 (1914, 1916) leaving from the U.S. will Alphabetical index for 1914: travel on LOT Airlines, the pages 1353-1579 official Polish airline. " " " 1916: Efforts will be made to fly pages 1711-1343 (A-R) directly to Cracow or to arrange for immediate air Film #1506284 (1916-1917) transfer from Warsaw to Alphabetical index for 1916: Cracow. No travel or pages 1342-1421 (Q-Z) activities will be planned on " " " 1917: Shabbat and every effort will pages 1527-1719 (A-N) be made to accomodate those who keep kosher. Film #1506285 (1917-1918) Alphabetical index for 1917: SIG Member Living in Warsaw pages 1718-1853 (N-Z) SIG member, Yale " " " 1918: Reisner, is Director of pages 661-777 Research and Archives for the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation. He is currently living in Warsaw where he is organizing TRAVEL and directing the Genealogical Research Center New Developments on the 1995 of the Jewish Historical SIG Trip to Poland Institute. He writes that he As noted above, Phyllis "knows a lot of Galician Simon has received a reply resources" but the demands of from the Research Center of his job make it impossible to the Jagiellonion University prepare material for in Cracow. They are offering publication at this point. assistance with access to However, if you are planning archives and with such to visit Poland, you might matters as cars, drivers, and want to contact Yale. translators. It appears that August, 1995 will be better ul. Hoza 43/49, M98 for them than July. 00-681 Warszawa, POLAND Phyllis is now coming up phone: (044-48-2) 625-0400 with more specific plans for a 10 day tour during August. A Potential Travel Resource In the next issue, we will Nat Abramowitz has publish specific dates, and passed on the word that T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 19

Mendel Reichberg, discussed America. Because I am now above in connection with spending almost half my time cemetery restoration efforts in Eastern Europe, I bought in Tyczyn and Lancut, heads a an apartment in Ukraine in travel agency and frequently order to leave office travels and leads tours in equipment, reference books, Poland. Phyllis Simon has clothing and other essentials been working with him, too, in one secure place because concerning our tentatively it wasn't feasible to planned trip to Poland in continue transporting all of 1995. He is a Hasid and has this for each trip. managed to provide kosher Graft and bribery food to those on his tours. prevail in every thing you It sounds as though he could do. For instance, in June, be an extremely valuable 1994, my driver and I stopped resource. Mr. Reichberg can at a gas station and waited be reached by calling one hour. Just when it was 718/436-1001. our turn, the attendant announced that he was closing Some Helpful Hints for for 1-2 hours so that an Visiting Ancestral Towns in accountant could complete an Ukraine audit! l knew from by Miriam Weiner experience that this could easily be 3-4 hours. My While I have visited driver went to the back door more than 100 towns in Poland of the station to offer the and Ukraine that were once attendant money if we could part of Galicia, there are get the gasoline now. The vast differences in traveling attendant declined the money in these two countries today. but suggested that vodka Therefore, this article will would be acceptable. My concentrate on Eastern driver took some vodka from Galicia, specifically, the the stock of vodka, wine and Ukraine oblasts of Ternopol, cognac we carry for such Lviv and Ivano Frankovsk occasions. (formerly Stanislowow). Gasoline stations are When I first began to few and far between and visit Ukraine on a regular prices are very high and basis a few years ago, it available in limited soon became evident that I quantities. Some other would need to pack things in short supply or not differently and carry goods available along the highways we take for granted in in Ukraine: auto service T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 20

areas, toilet facilities inflator, a spare set of aside from an occasional windshield wipers, a can of outhouse, maps, adequate WD-40, flares motor oil (I signs, telephones or brought a case from the convenience stores for food United States), and a strong items. The single most flashlight. important thing to bring with I also carry a small bag you is patience...more than with a first aid kit and you ever dreamed you had. presents for the many helpful Everything takes longer to people I encounter (office accomplish: phone calls; supplies, dolls, crayons, service in restaurants, cosmetics, watches, etc.). government offices, and With respect to Jewish hotels; and inspection of documents, some of the books documents at checkpoints on have not been opened for the highway and at borders. maybe 50 years. The pages Food handling standards and are stuck together and the toilet facilities in books are very fragile. restaurants are primitive. Since copy machines are the Even good hotels, now $150- exception in Ukraine, I 200 US per night, have no hot travel with a Canon copier, water. transformer/converter, extra A handy item is the blue cartridge and paper. Since chemical packet which are it isn't advisable to leave frozen prior to use so that valuables in the car, I must you can carry perishable food carry all of this in and out with you. I also carry small of hotels and offices when I packets of wet towelettes and travel. tissues, film, and batteries I have visited and for my camera and other worked in many towns in equipment. Even in a very Eastern Galicia, including: large city, the time you Brody, Lviv, Jaworow, would spend looking for such Bolechov, Probezhna, items would frustrate you Ternopol, Dolina, Snyatin, beyond words. I carry Buchach, Podgaysty, gasoline in cannisters in the Berezhany, Drohobych, Sambor, trunk or on top of the car. Monastyriska, Chortkov, My frequent trips to Ozeryany, Skala Podolskaya, Ukraine has forced me to Korolvka, Ivan Frankovsk, learn about automobile Borszczow, Rozniatow, maintenance and repairs. I Zabolotow, Zolochev. My town now carry a set of spark visits include photographing plugs, a tow rope, tire and videos of general views T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 21

and remaining Jewish sites, documents in Ozeryany, such as cemeteries, Korolvka, Skala and synagogues, new Holocaust Borszczow. monuments (not uncommon now), To date, I have worked Jewish schools and hospitals. in 13 Oblast Archives in I also conduct interviews Ukraine. In the winter, with government officials and heating is scarce and people people in the Jewish often wear coats inside. In community; local archival the summer, there is no air research and meetings with conditioning and heat can be town historians; obtaining stifling. I remember once maps of the town, with Jewish finding my driver, a man of sites marked; locating former many talents, on a ladder at ancestral homes. I have even the Lviv Archives. He was discovered previously unknown repairing the wiring. Within relatives for several a short time, the lights came clients. Some people have back on. asked me to do archival research which can be in as Miriam Weiner is an many as four locations in one author and lecturer in the town. For example, Jewish field of Jewish genealogy and documents for Ivano Holocaust research. She has Frankovsk/Stanislowow are worked in archives throughout located in the local ZAGS Poland since 1989 and in the archive, the Lviv Historical former USSR since 1991. For Archives and in two separate information on town visits archives in Warsaw. It is and/or archival research, not uncommon to find Jewish send a stamped, self- documents dating a particular addressed envelope to Weiner, family back into the 1700's. 136 Sandpiper Key, Secaucus, For example, I recently NJ 07094. Be sure to include completed a research the name(s) of your ancestral assignment for a Gesher town(s). Galicia member, Jeanne Andelman, where I found over Travel Saga 700 documents on her family members from Melnista William Fern and a Podolskaya. For another SIG friend took a 1992 trip to member, Paul Rosenbaum, I Drohobycz, Boryslaw, found more than 250 documents Truskaviec and Lviv. Some of from Bolechev. For a client his comments may be helpful: in Youngstown, Ohio, I found "We boarded an Aeroflot more than 500 family flight in Warsaw for T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 22

Lwow...In mid-air, an Apparently, it is not announcement was made that uncommon for luggage to be the plan would land at Ivano- "lost" in this fashion. Frankovsk. The plane was filthy and in need of serious GLEANINGS FROM AVOTAYNU repair. We were glad to land safely anywhere. Passengers AVOTAYNU, Vol. X, No. 2, had to find their own way to the Summer 1994 issue, Lwow." included two pertinent After taking a taxi to articles, one by Prof. dr hab Drohobycz for about $30, they Jerzy Skowronek, the Chief found that the only hotel in Archivist of Poland, and the the town was the Tuston. other by Dr. Volodymyr They preferred to stay at the Lozytsky, Deputy Director of Hotel Beskid in nearby the Main Archival Truskawiec for $10 per day in Administration of Ukraine. U.S. currency, meals Both articles offer included. Travellers are substantial evidence that we advised to come with U.S. are closer than ever to dollars in denominations of achieving good cooperation $1 and $5. Dollars open many from these governments in our doors. efforts to obtain On the return trip to information. Warsaw, the plane again left With respect to Poland, from Ivano-Frankovsk instead Prof. Skowronek offers a of Lwow as planned. The only reminder that Poland has hotel in Ivano-Frankovsk was genealogically valuable filthy. At the airport, documents in other than the luggage was tagged with stubs birth, marriage and death of cardboard with only a records we are so eager to number and no indication of locate. There are also such flight, place of origin or records as notary and destination. When we mortgage documents as well as arrived, we were told that my specialized collections in luggage was lost. My friend libraries and museums. The refused to accept this Polish National Archives is verdict and insisted on going working toward creating an into the luggage area to all-Poland database of check despite the loud collections in archives all protests of the attendant. over the country. "Guides to "There in a corner, neatly the holdings of the state tucked aside, was my luggage, archives in Poznan, Radom, officially "lost." and Rzeszow are in the final T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 23

stages of publication. Dr. Lozytsky explained There are no longer that the metrical (birth, restrictions on foreigners marriage and death) records conducting research in Polish in the Central State state archives, although Historical Archives in Lviv, genealogical researchers may are arranged "in alphabetical be required to substantiate order according to in writing that they are localities. Within a single related to the family they locality, records are are researching to protect arranged chronologically. their personal and property Both articles are useful rights. "All directors of and should be read carefully all state archives are to glean additional obliged to grant such information and ideas about authorization. Should that sources and types of be denied, the researcher may documents that may pertain to appeal to the Director particular families. General of the State Archives for a final decision." ***************************** Additionally, inventories, guides and directories are to THE GALITZIANER C is the be made available and quarterly publication of archivists are to assist Gesher Galicia. No portion researchers in accessing of this publication may be appropriate fonds. reproduced without permission With respect to archival of the editor, Suzan Wynne, research in Ukraine, Dr. 3128 Brooklawn Terrace, Chevy Lozytsky's remarks focused Chase, MD 20815, phone: mainly on the non-Galician 301/657-3389. portions of Ukraine. Founded in 1993, However, his general remarks, membership in the like that of Dr. Skowronek's, organization is $15 for U.S. served as a reminder that & Canadian residents and $22 court records are a valuable for all others. and, frequently overlooked, Bea Cohen maintains source of information about member information and families. In addition to coordinates the Gesher dealing with personal and Galicia Family Finder. Send property rights, contracts, address changes and updates wills, and receipts for land pertaining to surnames & and farm animals, courts also towns to: Bea Cohen, 831 registered citizens for Brodhead Street, Easton, PA occupational purposes. 18042-1649. T he Galitzianer Vol. 2, No. 1 24

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